How I Make Silicone Molds | Seriously Creative

uh [Music] hey everyone welcome back to my channel seriously creative in today's video i'm going to be showing you how to make silicone molds so i'm not a professional mould maker but this is just how i make them for my own personal use hopefully you find the tutorial helpful and i will also leave some links down below for some other videos okay so what you're going to need is of course some silicon so i use the barnes pinky sil silicon and it's got six minute work time and 20 minutes until it cures so you have to work quite quickly with this one you're gonna need a hot glue gun some packing tape or a clear sheet and this is going to be the base for your mould you're going to need something to make a border for your mold so cookie cutters are really good for this or you can use cardboard as well so i'm just going to use this cardboard box and also something that you want to mold so i'm going to be making a mold out of crystals and a tray and a bowl it's a good idea to try and make molds out of items that have got like a flat surface so these crystals all have got like a flat base so that when i stick it down to mold um it's really secure and also when you take it out of the mold it's a lot easier because it has a nice flat base to like be pulled out from if you want to save on wasting silicone you can actually just keep the scraps from making other silicon molds just use the scraps to like fill in the gaps and put in as much as you like and then just pour the silicon straight over the top and that will just help to fill any um any big gaps of silicon so for my first example i'm going to be using cardboard as the border so i just cut the cardboard to the shape of the mold and then cover it in sticky tape so the silicone doesn't stick to the cardboard i also make a base using cardboard and then cover that in sticky tape as well once you're happy with the border and the base you can stick them together using a hot glue gun make sure that they're sealed properly otherwise the silicone will leak out [Music] so for the second example i'm going to be using a cookie cutter you should try to make sure that you leave about a centimeter thickness around the edge of your piece that you're choosing to mold so with the cookie cutter technique i like to use packing tape on the bottom or sticky tape packing tape is just a little bit thicker and easier to use and i just stick my cookie cutter on top of the packing tape and then stick the pieces inside on top of the tape and then once again just use the hot glue gun to seal the base and the water together [Music] if you're using cardboard or a transparency sheet as the base for your mould you'll need to use a hot glue gun to stick the piece down inside [Music] once the molds are ready you can mix up the silicon so mine's a one-to-one ratio and it has a short work time so you have to work really quickly make sure you mix both of the parts together very thoroughly [Music] [Music] you can then pour the silicon into the mold cavity using a thin stream will reduce the amount of bubbles that it produces you can also tap the mold to release any extra bubbles as well and i like to use a heat gun to try and pop some of the bubbles on the surface i know professional mould makers use a pressure pot and this gets rid of every single bubble that comes out but because i'm not a professional mould maker it doesn't matter if i have a few bubbles on the surface [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so once you've let the silicone cure you can then take the mold out from its casing so just peel off the hot glue from the bottom and take off the base and then just pop the mold out [Music] sometimes i'll use an x-acto knife or a small pair of scissors or even cuticle cutters to get rid of the excess silicon around the piece [Music] [Music] so i hope this tutorial was helpful please let me know down in the comments if you have any questions and thank you so much for watching i'll see you next time bye [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 7min 55sec (475 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 31 2020